Natalie Hartman ‘23 is a Peer Advisor in the Center for Global Education. She is earning her undergraduate degree in Communication Studies and a minor in Creative and Cultural Industries. Although I have traveled to numerous countries, with the constraints of COVID-19 I have not yet had the opportunity to study abroad through Chapman. However,
Each semester, the Center for Global Education hosts a series of events in support of the Gateway to Taiwan Initiative. The Center for Global Education, in collaboration with the Department of World Languages and Culture, additional departments at Chapman University, and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, created the Gateway to Taiwan Initiative in the
884 students studied abroad in the 2018-2019 academic year and that number grows every year. Chapman students study abroad for a myriad of reasons—cultural immersion, desire to travel, wanting to learn a new language—but students come back to with skills and qualities that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Not only do
On Monday, November 18, Global Fest wasn’t the only thing kicking off International Education Week. As many were mesmerized by the harmonic flag procession, the CGE was closing in on opening up a brand new semester abroad program in Taiwan. Visitors from Soochow University visited campus that Monday and signed an agreement with Chapman officially
The Gateway to Taiwan initiative sparked after the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) collaborated with Chapman University’s Center for Global Education to host “Enchanting Taiwan” in 2012. As a result of this relationship, TECO was able to help fund a Mandarin language instructor at Chapman. Today, the instructor is now a full-time faculty member